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Don’t Avoid Having “Fierce Conversations”
18 November, 2011
“FIERCE CONVERSATIONS” DEFINED:
Doesn’t “fierce” suggest menacing, cruel, barbarous, threatening? Sounds like raised voices, frowns, blood on the floor, no fun at all. In Roget’s Thesaurus, however, the word fierce has the following synonyms: robust, intense, strong, powerful, passionate, eager, unbridled, uncurbed, untamed. In its simplest form, a fierce conversation is one in which we come out from behind ourselves into the conversation and make it real.
While many are afraid of “real,” it’s the unreal conversations that should scare us to death. Whoever said talk is cheap was mistaken. Unreal conversations are incredibly expensive for organizations and individuals.
WHY HAVE FIERCE CONVERSATIONS:
IF YOU WITHHOLD HAVING…
